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Blogflog - Life, Death, and Fiction

Jan 15, 2016 21:19

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( Life, Death, and Fiction )

book: ab 25: crimson death, wank: the darkity darkness of her soul, wank: writing, wank: character death, wank: the characters are real to me!, wank: lkh knows all, wank: laurell the great, wank: plot, wank: the most special of snowflakes, blogflog

Comments 11

cryptaknight January 15 2016, 13:24:34 UTC

She needs to get braver about killing off characters. I think the Anita series would have been much stronger and truer to its initial promise if she'd had the courage to kill off Jean-Claude.

yaoihuntresse March 8 2016, 04:05:55 UTC

I'd be happier with her killing off Richard first.

dagonista January 15 2016, 13:30:35 UTC

Clearly I'm just a terrible person/writer, because I can name a dozen characters from this series I would not miss in the slightest were they to die, with Anita right at the top. There's no sense LKH pretending that killing off Harem Member #23 or whoever is going to derail the series in anyway, because no doubt Anita picked up a replacement somewhere in the course of this book anyway.

yaoihuntresse March 27 2016, 16:31:25 UTC

Now the question is if she did kill of JC, what would the storyline be like then?

snarky_imp January 15 2016, 14:14:28 UTC

I'm just guessing here, but I'd say that if she'd gone ahead and killed J-C way back when, that no, she wouldn't be writing the 25th book featuring him and Anita. :P Words, lady. Words.

Any bets on who this mystery would be corpse is? And she writes paranormal, so it's not like death has to be forever. I mean, it's not like she's got a super powerful necromancer running around or anything... oh. Wait.

ext_1626743 January 15 2016, 23:11:07 UTC

I think it's going to be either Domino or Dev ( ... )

dwg January 15 2016, 14:35:32 UTC

It could be because I've had not much more than 3 hours sleep today, but all this hand-wringing about "this character could DIE! AGAIN! But last time was axed so YOU DON'T KNOOOOOOWWWW" is grating on me. Like, are we supposed to feel sorry for whoever this is because they nearly died before in a draft that only LKH knows? That we're meant to somehow psychically be attuned to all the ~~~~feelings she has for her characters? Because it's not like she does a stellar job of conveying how a death or near miss will impact the narrative.

Then again, if I had my way I'd probably execute most of the cast, starting with Anita.

(Iirc, Micah was also supposed to die at the end of NiC and look how well that turned out.)

quill_shadow January 15 2016, 14:59:21 UTC

How badly would her head explode if someone told her about alternate universe fiction? As in, just because the fictional character dies in one story, that doesn't mean the writer can't do what-if stories.

...Wait, never mind, no one tell her. I have horrible visions of soap-opera 'Ha! You thought I was dead, but it was my unmentioned twin brother, instead!' happening in the main series, because, let's face it, she can't detach herself from the fantasy she's built for long enough to understand the idea of alternate canon.